On HGTV’s “Hidden Potential,” Huntington Beach’s Jasmine Roth turns generic, suburban tract homes in Southern California into up-to-date standouts. But Roth recently took on the opposite challenge: turning back the clock on what might be the ultimate TV suburban touchstone, the “The Brady Bunch” house.

In HGTV’s four-part “A Very Brady Renovation,” debuting Sept. 9, the real-life six Brady “kids” work with Roth and other HGTV personalities to redo the Studio City house shown in the show’s exterior shots to replicate the groovy 1970s interior sets that fans know and love.

Roth’s life has been revamped since she was discovered by HGTV about three years ago through her prolific social media posts about her custom-home business. On “Hidden Potential,” now in its second season, she brings a California casual vibe to spaces while favoring function over trends.

This week, Roth discusses what it was like working on an iconic TV house with the grownup “Brady Bunch” cast. The interview has been lightly edited for clarity. Next week in part two of her interview, she’ll discuss her work on “Hidden Potential” and her ideas on how you can redo your own suburban Southern California home to fit your own family’s lifestyle.

Q: How fun was it — or how crazy was it or how hard was it? — to work on “The Brady Bunch” house?

A: It was all of those things. It was also really surreal. This is a project that is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. For anybody who grew up watching “The Brady Bunch,” there was the house that was used in the establishing scene, the exterior, then the show was actually shot on a stage at Universal. What we’ve done is we’ve taken that house that was used to establish the show and we’ve blown out the entire back part of it that you never really saw on TV and we’ve made it exactly like the “Brady Bunch” set.

It was such a cool project. It was completely surreal to be able to work with the Brady kids, and I didn’t know what to expect at first because I was, “OK, are they going to be into this? Are they going to actually swing a hammer? Are they going to be excited? Are they going to remember things?” Because that was part of it, we don’t know the paint colors, we don’t know what stone was used on the fireplace, but being able to research and go back and watch the show and then to have the memories of the six Brady kids, who aren’t kids anymore, to help us was so cool, and everybody was really into it. So that made it so much more fun. They really wanted to work on it, they were super excited to make everything exactly like it was back when they were on the set as children, and for that I couldn’t be more proud of how it turned out.

It’s interesting to see like, the show, it’s been 50 years, to see where everybody’s careers have taken them and all of their various experiences all kind of came back together to work on this project. Mike [Lookinland, who played Bobby Brady] owns a concrete company in Utah, so he was probably the most comfortable around tools. But everybody had their own story, whether they had renovated their own kitchen or their house or they’d helped their kids renovate a house, everybody had their own thing and that experience was super helpful as we went through this project because it was a lot of work. I think we all learned a lot as well.

Q: How did they split up the project?

A: We [the HGTV personalities] were all assigned certain rooms. My rooms were the den, Mike’s den, so the drafting table and the shutters, those green shutters, and the fireplace. I also had the master bedroom and master bathroom, which was all just so cool to work on. The bedroom was, you know, the height of design in its time, it was so ‘70s, so iconic. That bathroom was never really seen so I got to take some liberties to make the master bathroom look like what I thought it would look like back in the ‘70s.

I helped a lot because I was local here. I went up as much as I possibly could to work on the project, so I got to work with a lot of the other HGTV personalities on their projects as well, kind of lend a hand wherever I could. I worked on most of the house.

Q: Are we going to get to see Greg’s attic bedroom?

A: Yes! Because the house, we didn’t want to change the way the house looked from the front, we couldn’t add an attic, because it’s a split-level house and on the set, it was set up like a two-story house, which is a whole other story. But what we ended up doing was taking a basement space and we converted it into Greg’s groovy attic…. When you walk in there, you’d never know you weren’t in an attic. We were able to use a lot of what was there to make these rafters and use some carpet remnants for the mismatched carpet and there were beads…. It is one of the coolest rooms in the house, for sure.

Q: The staircase … on the set it was just a staircase to nowhere, right?

A: Yes. The Brady kids told me they’d run up the stairs, they’d turn the corner and all run smack dab into each other because they didn’t have anywhere to go. So the director would yell “Cut!” and they’d come back down the staircase and they’d go to whichever room, whichever set, the next scene was on.

Q: What do you think viewers are going to be most intrigued about seeing when this starts to air?

A: I think that viewers are going to be really excited to see what we decided to do with the house. Because there’s a lot of different ways it could have gone. We could have brought it up to, like if it was a 2019 house. We could have done a similar representation of what we saw then. Instead, we did it exactly what the set was. It’s one of those things, by watching the show growing up, [you know] there were things that were just there. For example, in the master bedroom, on the headboard, there’s this plaster bust of a woman’s head. And you wouldn’t notice it unless you literally went back and paused the show and you looked at the headboard, but when you see it there, now, in 2019, you say, “Oh yeah, of course that was there, of course there is that piece that had to be there and it wouldn’t be complete without it.”

I think viewers are going to find it wild that we literally matched piece by piece every single room and now you see the same people, who look like they do today, stepping back into the set from 50 years ago. And I think that’s just really fun and it kind of messes with your head a little bit. Watching these people we’ve all kind of grown up with, work together and interact, figure out how to do this project is really interesting.

In part of two of this interview, HGTV’s Jasmine Roth gives advice and tips on redoing suburban Southern California homes and what California casual style means to her.

Kathie Bozanich is a freelance journalist and Southern California native who worked for nearly three decades at the Los Angeles Times. She is a regular contributor to Home + Garden and other SCNG sections.

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